A 71-year-old Sarasota man faces up to 33 years in federal prison after being convicted today of federal charges that he peddled a scheme to help people avoid paying taxes. ...more

March 9, 2010

Actor Wesley Snipes, who has tax problems of his own, had a blunt reaction to news about a software engineer who crashed his plane into an office building with nearly 200 IRS employees inside. ...more

February 19, 2010

I've been reading and witnessing the same thing for nine years; same plot, but different scenarios. I've already covered corporate blunders the past 100 years where the corporate elite "erred," but working class taxpayers paid the bill. ...more

January 31, 2010

The Highlands County Commission has agreed to discuss a tax abatement referendum during a regular meeting in early March. ...more

January 31, 2010

What is her problem? Is U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite so involved with political posturing that the unemployment rate in Hernando County, currently 14.9 percent with no indication the upward trend will reverse itself anytime in the foreseeable future, is secondary to some flimflam notation that a hometown community leader should dare initiate dialogue that could create or redistribute jobs in the county? ...more

January 27, 2010

The Temple Terrace peanut butter businessman was desperate. A nationwide salmonella scare, which came from peanut butter produced in Georgia, prompted the Food & Drug Administration to spend weeks inspecting his company's plant in Jacksonville. His plant was deemed safe, but the time that it was shut down for inspections put the business on the edge of a financial cliff. ...more

January 23, 2010

Sunshine Peanut almost went under. Instead, a desperate e-mail landed the company a big state contract. ...more

January 22, 2010

Citigroup and other banks starting to repay the billions of dollars they borrowed from the government are getting another boost as they exit the bailout program: Billions more in tax breaks. ...more

December 17, 2009

They've handed out flyers, gone door-to-door and answered questions at a public forum. Now it's time for Avon Park's registered voters to choose three of four candidates for city council Tuesday. How well do you know your candidates and the issues they want to address if elected? ...more

November 2, 2009

Mr. Pereia is "right on" about how Hitler stifled and took control of the press in his rise to power. ...more

October 30, 2009